Innovations in End-of-Life Care
an international journal of leaders in end-of-life care

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This international, online journal features peer-reviewed promising practices in end-of-life care, useful tools, selected bibliographies, and other resources.

Previously published bimonthly, as of October 2003, the journal will no longer post new issues. All 28 past thematic issues, from January 1999 through September 2003, are now archived at this site and are available to read, download, and print for free. For a chronological list of issues, click here. To look up issues by topic, and useful tools see the links below. Use the Search button to search by keyword or author's last name.

Communication: Select a Topic Advance Care Planning 1999 Advance Care Planning 2003: Part 1 Advance Care Planning 2003: Part 2 Advanced Dementia Continuity of Care Depression, Hope, & Meaning Moving Toward Family-Centered Care Spirituality	Palliative Care Services: Select a Topic African American Communities Continuity of Care Hospice Expands its Reach Hospice in Prison Institutionalizing Palliative Care Integrated Model of Palliative Care Measuring Quality of Care Palliative Care in Nursing Homes Teen Hospice Volunteers Widening the Circle for Palliative Care
Disease-Specific Themes: Select a Topic Advanced Dementia Cancer Care Cancer: Clinical Trials Cancer Pain COPD & CHF: Palliative Care Depression, Hope, & Meaning HIV/AIDS	Pediatric/Family-Centered: Select a Topic Coping with Loss/Loss of a Parent Family-Centered Care On Grief and Bereavement/Loss of a Child Pediatric Palliative Care Supporting Family Caregivers
Loss, Suffering, Bereavement: Select a Topic Coping with Loss Depression, Hope, & Meaning On Grief and Bereavement/Children	Relieving Pain: Select a Topic Cancer Pain In Long-Term Care Facilities Institutionalizing Palliative Care/QI effort Opioid Accessibility: Latin America Reinterpreting Comprehensive Cancer Care
Measuring Quality: Select a Topic Institutionalizing Palliative Care/QI effort Quality in Palliative Care Quality of Life	Training: Select a Topic Hospice in Prison Residency Spirituality Teen Volunteers
AHA Circle of Life Award Winners: Select a Topic Continuity of Care/2000 Comprehensive Cancer Care/2002 Hospice Expands its Reach/2001 Hospice in Prison/2000 Institutionalizing Palliative Care/2001 Palliative Care in Nursing Homes/2001 Teen Hospice Volunteers/2000 Widening the Circle for Palliative Care/2003

Featured innovators post their original tools here. Click here to access tools by category, then read associated thematic issue to gain a clearer understanding of how to use that tool.

Innovations in End-of-Life Care is also available in print, published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.

Innovations in End-of-Life Care: Practical Strategies and International Perspectives Volume 1, 2002, Volume 2, 2001, Volume 3, 2000.

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Each issue of the Journal of Palliative Medicine  includes a section with articles from Innovations in End-of-Life Care.  JPM is the official journal of AAHPM.